[meteorite-list] NEWS RELEASE

From: Michael Casper <Michael_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:55:50 2004
Message-ID: <001701c1a3dc$9d936620$0200a8c0_at_Domain>

International Meteorite Society <<<< what's this?????

Does this have anything to do with Steve Arnold?

  MC


----- Original Message -----
From: Rick Nowak <internationalmeteoritesociety_at_yahoo.com>
To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 1:55 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] NEWS RELEASE


> NEWS RELEASE SENT OUT TO MAJOR CANADIAN NEWSPAPERS
> UNKNOWN TO GENERAL PUBLIC
>
> IMS International Meteorite Society Chippewa Lake
> Ohio-
>
> Famous meteorite hunter Harvey Nininger during the
> summer of 1931 wrote a meteorite news story for the
> Canadian Saskatoon Star. He stated farmers could have
> easily hauled meteorites to their rock piles. He
> explained how to recognize meteorites, stressed the
> importance of recovery, and how he was offering a cash
> reward. Later a farmer by the name of Ward contacted
> Mr. Nininger and sent him about 200 pounds of
> meteorites in return receiving a check. In the 1931
> correspondence with Mr. Ward he told Mr. Nininger of
> "the big one that got away." Before he learned the
> true value of the dark rocks he had thrown away the
> largest one he ever found. "We were filling up a well
> about seventy or eighty feet deep" he related. "I was
> hauling rocks to fill it up. And this particular rock
> was so heavy we used a team to pull it up onto the
> stone-boat, and then when I got to the well it was all
> I could do to dump it. I tore my hands rolling it into
> the well." Later Nininger used a magnetometer in 1950
> to find the old well and recover the meteorite. He was
> meant by failure due to the technology at the time and
> granite with magnetite. I was alerted to this
> meteorite after reading Find A falling Star by Harvey
> Nininger. Later IMS contacted the village of
> Springwater and had them do a tax search for a Mr.
> Ward. The current property owners where located and
> the amount of $100,000 was offered upon recovery which
> is pending further cash offers are in the works. IMS
> contacted Martin Beech at Campion College University
> of Regina (306) 359-1216. To be a part of the recovery
> of this Springwater Meteorite. One dealer sells
> Springwater at $50.00 dollars a gram
>
> http://fernlea.tripod.com/sale4.html
>
> Listed under Springwater
>
> IMS has access to a Ground Penetration Rader which
> cost $50,000.00 IMS will be able to locate the well
> rather easily in a plowed over field then proceed with
> recovery. IMS suspects meteorite at 300 lb.
>
>
>
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